Pickling basket



Patented Jan. 29, 1935 f '1i r' i l 1,989,3o'1g` f PICKLING BASKET Y Y. stephenkL. williams, Bridgeport, ohio, assigner-to Extruded Metal Products Company, Bridgeport, Ohio, a ycorporation. of Ohio y f n Applioaiioiinpriia1934,soria1No.719,277

` eioiaims. (CL-zesfvif y This invention relates-broadly topiokiing basoeeds me widtnof the basket, as shown in Fig. kets, and more particularly to a basket for rel. At spaced distances throughout the extent of taining small stampings, forging and like artithe shaft are recesses or cut-out portions 13, the cles while vthe same are subjected to immersion shaftat the location of each of the recesses hav- 5 in the fluid of the pickling bath. ing a segmental .contour in cross section.

The object of the invention is to provide a bas- .In assembled relation, the recesses 13 are deket having a bottom which may be dropped down-- signed to rregister with spaced forwardly projectwardly about a pivotal connection for permitting ing lugs'lriformed integralV with the inner edge of the retained articlesto drop by gravity out of the each bottom .isection and 9 so'that, when the lO` basket for unloading the latter, lockingshafts '12 are -in-'the position shown in Fig. l0-

Another object of the invention is to provide l, and at the left of Figs. 2 and 3, the segmental novel means for locking the bottom in normally portions of the shafts will occupy underlying supclosed position and for unlocking thesame to alportingrrelatien U the lugs, thereby maintaining low the basket to be automatically emptied. and lockingthe sections 8 and 9 closed to forma l k En describing the invention in detail, reference iXed betten! ferlthebeskeil When, hOWeVel", fOlis herein had to theaccompanying drawings in lowing removaliofzthetbasket'from the ipickling whichi" bath, a locking shaft -12 ismanually'rotated by Figure 1 is a top 'plan' View of the invention; means of one of the hand levers 15f to the extent Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on of 90 of acircle, as shown at the right of Figs. 2 line 2 2, Fig. l, showing one of the hinged botand 3, the shaft is brought out Of underlying C011- 2U tom sections in its open or unloading position; tact with the lugs 14 by reason 0f the provision O-f Figure 3 is an enlarged sectionalview taken on the recesses, thus permitting the respective 100tline 3-3, Fig. l, illustrating the manner of opertom section supported to drop to a depending ating the locking shafts; andvertical position about its hinge connection 10 for Figure 4 is a detail view of a locking shaft ildumping the contents outwardly and downwardly 25 lustrating the construction thereof. through the bottom.

Referring to said drawings, the reference nu- A plurality 0f bearings 16 are previded 0n each meral 1 designates a substantially rectangular side of the transverse member2 of the base, in base frame consisting of spaced parallel end memwhich bearings the 10Cking Shafts 12 are journaled.

bers and side members, and also having an inte- One 511011 bearing iS Provided intermediate JWO 30 gral transverse member 2 located midway between recesses of the shaft to afford strength and rigidithe end members and connecting the two longity to the structure.

tudinal side members. Stops 17 are located on the base 1 for limiting Rising vertically from the base l are the side the rotation of the levers 15. walls 3 and end walls 4 of the basket,l said walls What'is claimed is- 35 being supported by means of corner posts 7, as 1. In a pickling device, a base having an inshown in Fig. 2, the lower ends of the Corner posts termediate transverse member, a basket carried 7 being threadedly received in thebase 1. Each by the bese, e pair 0f bOtiOm SeetiOns fOr the side wall and end wall has a plurality of grillebasket piveted at their Outer endS t0 the base.

like openings 6 thereby to afford free and ready and having their inner endS free and @Onflent- 40 access of the pickling duid to the interior of the ing the transverse member, bearings carried by basket when the latter is immersed in the bath, the transverse member and extending outwardly Eyes 5 are provided at the upper end of each corbeyond the opposite sides thereof, a pair of roner post 7 for receiving hooks of a lifting crane or tatable shafts disposed on opposite sides of the pickling apparatus. transverse member and journaled in the adjacent 45 The bottom of the basket consists of two secbearings, spaced projections on the inner ends tions 8 and 9, each being pivotally connected to of the bottom sections, the shafts having segthe base frame 1 at its outer edge by a hinge conmental cut-outs to register with the projections nection 10. The confronting free inner edges of in one position of the shafts and in a second posithe bottom sections (which latter also have the tion to be out of register with the shafts so that 50 grille-like openings) are maintained in normal the projections seat upon the shafts, hand levers horizontal closed position by means of manually at one end of the shafts for operating the same, rotatable locking shafts 12. and stop means to engage and hold the levers Each locking shaft 12, as shown in detail in Fig. against downward movement in said second posi- 4, consists of a length of shaft whose length extions of the shafts while permitting upward 55 movement of the shafts to said lrst position to release the bottom sections for downward movement.

2. In a pickling device, a pickling basket having a pivoted bottom member with a free end provided with spaced outwardly extending prolongations, a shaft vertically alined with and underlying and engaging the prolongations in closed position of -the bottom member to support the latter against downward movement in one position of the shaft and having cut-outs which in a second position of the shaft register with the prolongations to allow the bottom member to move downwardly, ahand lever connected to the shaft for rotating same, and a rigid stop member for engaging the lever to hold the latter in substantially horizontal Vposition when the shaft is in its said first position.

3. In a pickling device, a pickling basket having a pivoted bottom member with a free end provided with spaced outwardlylextending prolongations, a shaft vertically alined with and underlying and engaging the prolongations in closed position of the bottom member to support the latter'against downward movement in one position of the shaft and having cut-outs which in a second position of the shaft register with the prolongations to `allow the bottomJ member to move downwardly, a hand lever connected to the shaft for rotating same; and means engageable with the lever to hold theshaft against movement in` said first named position thereof while permitting movementof the lever to cause the shaft to assume its said second position.

4. In a pickling device, a .picklingbasket having a pivoted bottom element with a free end, a rotary element extending transversely across, and underlying and in vertical alinement with the free end of the bottom element to engage and support the same against downward movement, said free end of the bottom element and the rotary element having complementary projections and cut-outs whereby in one position of the rotary element the bottom element is engaged with and held by the rotary element in closed position, and in a second position of the rotary element the projections and cut-outs, register to enable the bottom element to move to open position, means to actuate the rotary element, and means to hold the rotary element in its said first named position.

5. In a pickling device, a pickling basket having a pivoted bottom with a free end and having spaced extensions projecting outwardly from said end and in substantially the plane thereof, a substantially straight shaft underlying and vertically alined with the said free end and being directly engageable with the extensions to hold the bottom closed in one position of the shaft and having cut-outs for registry with the extensions whereby to allow the bottom to open in a second position of the shaft, means to rotate the shaft and means to limit rotation of the shaft upon movement thereof to the position wherein same holds the bottom closed.

6. In a pickling device, a pickling basket having a pivoted bottom with a free end, a shaft disposed adjacent to the bottom and having portions on which the under side of the free end of the bottom directly seat, means to rotate the shaft to move said portions out of alinement with the free end of the bottom to allow the latter to move downwardly to open position, and means to limit rotation of the shaft to hold same in bottom-supporting position.

STEPHEN L. WILLIAMS. 

